ERIK GREENBERG ANJOU is a graduate of Middlebury College (B.A.), Northwestern University (M.A.) and the American Film Institute (Directing Program). His film endeavors encompass both the narrative and documentary arenas, having directed "The Cool Surface" starring Robert Patrick and Teri Hatcher, the award-winning "Jon Schueler: A Life in Painting" about the abstract-expressionist painter and "A Cantor’s Tale," which is being distributed in North America by Ergo Media. His upcoming projects are consistently diverse. They include the feature film "The Sixth Commandment" (writer), to be produced by Rony Yacov, and the documentaries "For Love and Honor" (director) featuring Tommy Lee Jones and Brian Dennehy and "The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground" (producer/director) about the Grammy award-winning band.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:

SAM HENRIQUES is one of the most talented cinematographers to emerge from the New York independent film world. His many credits include documentary, commercial and PSA work. In 1998, Sam’s "The Farm" - about life inside the Angola State Prison in Louisiana - was nominated for an Academy Award. His picture, "Riding The Rails" (for PBS’s "The American Experience") captured 11 major prizes. "Burning the Future: Coal in America" is now just starting the festival circuit. Sam has garnered both an Emmy (1999) and a Peabody Award (1998) for his cinematography.



 

ORIGINAL MUSIC:

FRANK LONDON is a virtuoso musician and film composer. Many contemporary music fans know him for his seminal work with the Grammy award winning band, The Klezmatics and the Klezmer Brass All-Star Band. The Klezmatics, Frank’s "Invocations" (2000) is a searing instrumental tribute to cantorial music. His "Carnival Conspiracy" was Rolling Stone's #1 Non-English CD of 2006.  He has written several film scores, as well as the music for the off-Broadway productions "A Night in the Old Marketplace," "Green Violin" and "On Words and Onwards." 

KARLYN MICHELSON is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley. She has edited a wide range of documentary, commercial and art projects. In addition to her documentary and art collaborations with Emmy Award-winning producer Elliot Caplan, her credits include the acclaimed PBS news show "Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: the Resurgence" and "Higher Fences," the personal story of Martin Schiller, a Holocaust survivor who travels back to Germany and Poland with his son.